Its Taking a really long time

To start with, we didn’t had a perfect start. There was some misunderstandings, and he text ed me to sort it out and we’ve been talking since then and its almost 8 months since we started talking to him. But we have known each other since 2 years now. Now the problem is that although we are not dating other peoples and have closed all the opportunity of dating other peoples things are not working. No one wants to confess his or her feelings and now even though I like him I want to date other guys. But doing that is going to hurt him and I am tired of waiting.